Variable Speed Drives (VSDs) - Large Retrofit

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Description

VSDs reduce energy consumption by operating at speeds that vary over time based on changing loads. Standard pump and fan systems always run at full speed, consuming more electricity than required to do the job. A variable speed drive slows a fan or pump down when the actual load decreases.

Availability

This program is available to businesses in Massachusetts that are customers of these Program Administrators:

Cape Light Compact

Eversource

National Grid

Unitil

Eligibility

Equipment shall be new and shall be installed in a commercial, industrial, institutional, educational, or municipal building within an electric Program Administrator’s service territory.

Product types listed in the Application Form are eligible for prescriptive incentives. However, other measures not listed may be eligible for custom incentives using the Custom Retrofit Application Form.

VSDs must be controlled by an automatic signal in response to modulating air/water flows. The VSD speed must be automatically controlled by differential pressure, flow or temperature.

Applicants must demonstrate significant load diversity that will result in savings through motor speed variation.

Motors must operate a minimum of 2,000 hours annually.

The following VSD applications are NOT eligible for prescriptive incentives under this application: